‘Fed up with 50th’
Who in Mississippi ISN’T fed up with being last on every “good” list and first on every “bad” list?…
As long as things don’t change, we will stay on the bottom. What needs to change? Let me count (some of) the ways.
We have young people who have no real interest in getting an education and teachers whose main reason for teaching is to cash a check every month. Not all, understand, but even one is too many.
We have our share of people whose only ambition in life is to get “high” on drugs, or have as many babies as they can without the desire to even try to provide for those children themselves.
We have too many people who should not be reproducing. They are passing on sorry genes of poor intelligence and/or laziness and/or criminal inclination.
We don’t have enough jobs for the people who are here now, and too many of them are not qualified to be anything more than ditch diggers.
When all Mississippians can and will look toward the future with their children and grandchildren in mind, then perhaps they will start to do whatever little thing they can do as individuals to improve things in this state.
Fewer illegitimate children growing up without good parental guidance; more parents being involved in the lives of their children, like school-work and after-school activities; less money wasted on drugs like alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, crack, etc. …
Things won’t get changed around overnight. It will take time, but if we don’t start now, it will take that much longer.
Relying on more money for education to magically improve things is a fool’s quest. Personally I think that ALL school funds from every school district should be divided equally amongst all public school students statewide, and if a public school student opts to go to a private or other school, their school funding should follow.
After all, every student is important and every student deserves the very best education this state can provide. Let students go to the school that best suits their talents and intelligence, and I believe we will see a great improvement in everything in this state.
Cameron Triplett
Brooksville
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